Chapter 13

This chapter discussed the improved procedures, equipment, and facilities, along with the increase in noncommunicable diseases in the 1940's that later led to a rise in the cost of health care. It talked about the health care delivery in the United States. The U.S. has created a medical entanglement that we as the citizens are born into. In many other countries the medical attention people seek is run and organzied by the government and is paid for, mostly by taxes. In these countries almost all citizens are entitled to receive health care services. Then, there is the U.S. whose health care is provided by an array of providers, in many different settings, under regulators, and paid for in many different ways. The main points behind this chapter are to open the reader's eyes and ask two important questions. How did we get to this point and when did it become ok to put the quality and life of some Americans more important than others? If everything is supposed to involve equality why wouldn't Americans be able to receive equal health care and medical attention in hospitals or doctor's offices when needed no questions asked.
When reflecting on the chapter, our group learned that as the cost of heath care was rising, it became to expensive for many people to afford. Around this time the debate over heath care being a basic right or a privledge in the U.S. came about. When the chapter continued to discuss the increasing heath care costs in the late 1960's and 1970's better heath care delivery began to be questioned. As for today, not many changes have occured. As a group we believe the U.S. heath care delivery systems need to improve and need to be considered for change.